Excess fat mass estimated by waist-circumference-to-height ratio predicts the risk of liver damage better than body mass ...

A recent study offers recommendations on how to balance weight loss goals and bone health concerns in weight management ...

Background Obesity is a growing public health challenge worldwide with significant health and economic impacts. However, much of what is known about the economic impacts of obesity comes from ...

1 Center for Evaluation and Survey Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico 2 Center for Mathematics Research, Aguascalientes Unit, Aguascalientes, Mexico Background: ...

Objective To determine the prevalence of obesity and its related comorbidities among patients being actively managed at a US academic medical centre, and to examine the frequency of a formal diagnosis ...

Concerns are growing that more troubling stories about the National Health Service will emerge before it fully recovers from ...

Your gut is more important than you might think. Studies have discovered a strong link between three parts of your body: the gut, the brain, and fat tissue. Together, these form what’s called the ...

With that in mind, just how important is breakfast for us? Is it something we can lose weight by skipping? Or is it a sensible practice that has become standard for a good reason? To discover the ...

Objective It was repeatedly shown that lower income is associated with higher risks for subsequent obesity. However, the perspective of a potential reverse causality is often neglected, in which ...

As of late 2024, only 14 state Medicaid programs cover GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Saxenda, or Zepbound for the treatment of obesity. These states are: California, Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland ...

Patients taking GLP-1 RAs for obesity treatment reported a reduction in alcohol intake, from a preintervention mean of 11.8 ± 1.0 units/week to a postintervention mean of 4.3 ± 0.5 units/week.